Award winning author David Hair's Pyre of Queens tells a fantasy tale, rooted in myth and history, Sravasti Datta discovers
The year is 769 A.D. The place Mandore in Rajasthan. Ravindra-Raja, the evil sorcerer-king devises a deadly secret ritual. He and seven of his queens will burn on his funeral pyre, and he will rise again with the powers of Ravana, the demon-king of the epic Ramayana. But things go wrong when one of his queens, the beautiful and spirited Darya, escapes with the help of the court poet, Amar Dhoop.
Cut to 2010. At the site of ancient Mandore, teenagers Vikram, Amanjit, Deepika and Rasita meet. They realise that the deathless king and the ghosts of his brides are hunting them down. They are confronted by vicious forces from the past. “They must unlock truths that have been hidden for a long time and fight an ancient battle…one more time.”
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